The poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University finds that 54 percent don't think that Scott deserves a second term as governor. Only 41 percent approve of the job Scott is doing. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percent.

The gap between Scott and Crist is closer than it was in a poll taken last March.

But Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, says Scott's momentum has stalled. Scott was trailing Crist by 7 points in a November poll

CAUSE OF -- INVESTIGATING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE. FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST TOPS INCUMBENT RICK SCOTT. CRIST IS WHO RUNNING AS A DEMOCRAT LEADS SCOTT 46 TO 38 PERCENT IN THE NEW POLL. WESH 2 POLITICAL REPORTER GREG FOX IS HERE LIVE. LOOKS LIKE VOTERS MAY THINK SCOTT IS NOT CARRYING OUT HIS PROMISE. REMEMBER THIS IS THE BIG ONE. THE GOVERNOR RAN ON THE PLATFORM OF CREATING JOBS. WHILE IT'S TRUE UNEMPLOYMENT IN FLORIDA IS DOWN TO 6.2 PERCENT, BETTER THAN THE NATION, A MAJORITY OF VOTERS, 54 PERCENT, SAY SCOTT DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE RE-ELECTED. WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS WE KEEP GETTING JOBS. REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT A NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL THAT SHOWS HIM TRAILING BY EIGHT POINTS IN HIS BID FOR RE-ELECTION. THAT MEANS FORMER GOVERNOR, NEW DEMOCRAT CHARLIE CRIST, IS CLICKING WITH VOTERS THAT SEEM WILLING TO FOR GIVE HIS PARTY SWITCH. MR. CRIST HAS AN EIGHT POINT LEAD WHICH IS CERTAINLY NOT CHOPPED LIVER. BUT IT'S NOT OVERWHELMING. THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED BEFORE SCOTT WEDNESDAY RELEASED HIS BUDGET PROPOSAL DURING WHICH HE BRAGGED ABOUT CREATING MORE THAN 430,000 NEW JOBS SINCE BEING ELECTED. HIS CAMPAIGN REMINDS VOTERS. FLORIDA LOST NEARLY A MILLION JOBS WHILE CRIST WAS GOVERNOR. BUT THE QUINNIPIAC POLL SHOWS VOTERS STILL THINK SCOTT IS NOT GETTING THE JOB DONE. ON THE ECONOMY AND JOBS VOTERS FAVOR CRIST 47 PERCENT TO 42 PERCENT OVER SCOTT. GOVERNOR SCOTT CAN'T GET RE-ELECTED IF HE CAN'T CONVINCE VOTERS THAT HE'S BETTER ON THE ECONOMY. AND HERE'S WHERE CRIST IS REALLY SEEING AN ADVANTAGE. INDEPENDENTS WHO FAVOR HIM 48 PERCENT TO JUST 32 PERCENT. CREDIBILITY'S IMPORTANT. INDEPENDENT VOTERS ARE OBVIOUSLY THE KEY TO THE ELECTION BECAUSE THEY TEND TO HOLD THE BALANCE. IN ONE POSITIVE SIGN FOR SCOTT, THE POLL SHOWS HE IS TIED WITH CRIST WHEN IT COMES TO ANSWERING THE QUESTION: WHO IS THE BETTER LEADER? COMING UP ON "WESH 2 NEWS AT 5", MORE ON THIS NEW VOTER SURVEY